All this picture needs is a ball, and a few cocktails to use as goal posts.
More news on the Las Vegas expansion bid from the Las Vegas Sun. Apparently Paul Caliguiri has been an integral part of their efforts out there and that is a very good sign; they've got a serious soccer guy on board from the get-go who can hopefully steer this thing from becoming too much like Circus Circus. It's also nice that they have $35 million dollars sitting on the table ready to go for that expansion fee (remember when you could get a club for only $15 million 4 years ago?) and want to build an Amex-maxing $500 million retractable roof, futbol oasis in the desert.
Mark Abbott, please let us have them in the league. Pretty please, with showgirls and high-ball drinks on top? Just picture it...the supporters can sing "Viva Las Vegas" as their anthem, you could borrow a tiger from Siegfried & Roy (they ain't using 'em much these days) for your mascot, and sell a game-&-gaming vacation packages from other league cities. I'm telling you it could work!
And just maybe league, as the 1st major sport to come in to town, could work something out with the Nevada Gaming Commission to get a cut of all bets placed on MLS games. Then we could tell the Eurosnobs "we're just like Italy"!
More news on the Las Vegas expansion bid from the Las Vegas Sun. Apparently Paul Caliguiri has been an integral part of their efforts out there and that is a very good sign; they've got a serious soccer guy on board from the get-go who can hopefully steer this thing from becoming too much like Circus Circus. It's also nice that they have $35 million dollars sitting on the table ready to go for that expansion fee (remember when you could get a club for only $15 million 4 years ago?) and want to build an Amex-maxing $500 million retractable roof, futbol oasis in the desert.
Mark Abbott, please let us have them in the league. Pretty please, with showgirls and high-ball drinks on top? Just picture it...the supporters can sing "Viva Las Vegas" as their anthem, you could borrow a tiger from Siegfried & Roy (they ain't using 'em much these days) for your mascot, and sell a game-&-gaming vacation packages from other league cities. I'm telling you it could work!
And just maybe league, as the 1st major sport to come in to town, could work something out with the Nevada Gaming Commission to get a cut of all bets placed on MLS games. Then we could tell the Eurosnobs "we're just like Italy"!
4 comments:
The first thing the expansion team will need to do to court local fans is to leave all the hokey touristy crap behind. We already know we live in Vegas. No hokey Elvis songs, no impersonators (too often), just treat us like normal soccer fans and it'll be oook.
this men it's a real mess, I mean this is not the first time that Caligiuri do something like this, but well you know the phrase "what happen in vegas stay in all possible blogs"
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